IPOLA: I see. I feel foolish saying this but I really wasn’t expecting that.

ZONN: How could you know what to expect?

IPOLA: How indeed? For twenty-five years you’ve been thirty years old to me, and still the same sellsword you used to be. And my lost people that were with you, I imagined them dead. All the freed slaves …

ZONN: What about the ones we freed in the war? Where did they wind up, in the end?

IPOLA: There’s a new tribe. The Snake Tribe. And I think they are one of the things I am proudest of.

ZONN: That’s wonderful.

IPOLA: They wrote their own rules, made their own traditions, just like you did. Zonn –

IPOLA: If your tribe won’t come, will you, at least?

ZONN: I … I can’t risk my life without their consent, Ipola. Of all people you should understand that.

IPOLA: I just did! And I did it because it was a chance worth taking. The stakes are our very existence. Sometimes, Zonn, a king trusts his own judgement, rather than the opinions of the people.

You remember when our intrepid adventurers were stranded in Hollywood, California for awhile and the bored Zona would spend her time in the pool? Well sometimes she would forego the bathing suit. And your faithful storyteller did record the event.

My generous patrons at Patreon can see the whole thing in a high resolution desktop.

Do subscribe if you can, not just for the boobs and fun stuff, but to help Zona get to our goal and make an animated demo which, naturally, my patrons will be the first to see!

You people are wonderful, and today we crossed a bit of a threshold and have now more than fifty patrons who are helping us get to the ever-nearer goal of ten thousand bucks for the Zona animated demo and then beyond to a series!

Thanks so very much. All of you are important, and as an artist I feel everyone’s support, whether you can afford to be a patron on Patreon or not. But because I’m feeling jaunty I thought I’d share something from the past that had not been posted before. Going through my archives I came across a render of the luckless Ginsha I’m pretty sure I haven’t shared before. Half-urtt woman, now masterless and mostly insane, I promise that there is a resolution in her future.